English for Effective Business Speaking

English for Effective Business Speaking

English for Effective Business Speaking

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

About this course: This course aims to improve your Business English speaking skills by developing your use of vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, spoken communication skills within a Business context, and your ability to deliver professional business speeches for specific purposes. Skills learned in this course will be used in the cross-cultural communications course and help prepare you to deliver the professional business presentation in the Capstone project.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- delivery effective job interviews
- give persuasive business pitches
- delivery informative business presentations
- speak persuasively in English
- adapt content to purpose, context and audience
- use appropriate style and tone of writing for business purposes

Welcome to Week 1! This week, we will cover Module 1 where we introduce you to the objectives and structure of this Specialization and course.

3 videos, 4 readings

Video: Welcome to our course

Reading: Objectives and outcomes

Video: Introduction to our Specialization

Video: Guest Speaker-Prof.Caroline Wang-Effective Business Speaking

Discussion Prompt: How is this course relevant to you?

Reading: Learning how to learn

Reading: Learning vocabulary

Discussion Prompt: How do you improve your English speaking skills?

Reading: The HKUST English Grammar Guide (EGG)

WEEK 2

Introduction to business speaking

Welcome to Week 2! This week we will cover Module 2 where we introduce you to speaking skill you may need in the workplace. You will also be introduced to vocabulary and language skills common to business communications.

Welcome to Week 3! This week we will cover Module 3 where we introduce you to interviewing skills you may need in the workplace. You will also be introduced to vocabulary and language skills common to business communications.

Welcome to Week 4! This week we will cover Module 4 where we introduce you to delivering business pitches and speaking persuasively. You will also be introduced to vocabulary and language skills common to business communications.

7 videos, 10 readings, 3 practice quizzes

Reading: Objectives and outcomes

Discussion Prompt: What persuades you?

Video: Elements of a persuasive presentation

Video: The elevator pitch

Video: Rhythm, stress and pausing

Reading: More on stress and pausing

Reading: Peer review practice: stress and pausing

Practice Quiz: Peer review practice: stress and pausing

Video: Body language

Reading: What do we mean when we say 'rhetoric'?

Reading: Rhetorical devices in persuasive speeches

Reading: Objectives and outcomes

Reading: Vocabulary list

Practice Quiz: Vocabulary quiz

Video: Challenging English: giving opinions

Reading: More on giving opinions

Reading: Discourse markers

Video: Challenging English sounds -/ð/ "then" /z/ "zen"

Video: Challenging English sounds - /θ/ "thin" /s/ "sin"

Reading: Peer review practice

Practice Quiz: Peer review practice

Graded: Practise your stress and pausing

Graded: Pitch it

Graded: Module 4

WEEK 5

Business presentations

Welcome to Week 5! This week we will cover Module 5 where we introduce you to presentations skills you may need in the workplace and effective visualizations. You will also be introduced to vocabulary and language skills common to business communications.

7 videos, 10 readings, 1 practice quiz

Reading: Objectives and outcomes

Discussion Prompt: You be the judge

Discussion Prompt: Evaluate your own presentation skills

Video: The differences between written and spoken English

Video: Preparing and planning presentations

Reading: Arranging and organizing presentations

Discussion Prompt: Making and using visual aids

Video: Designing effective visuals

Discussion Prompt: Ineffective visuals

Video: Engaging the audience

Reading: Presenting data in charts and graphs

Reading: Understanding the differences between seminars and conferences

Welcome to Week 2! This week we will cover Module 2 where we wrap up the course. You will be asked to complete the final exam and post-course survey.

Graded: Final exam

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Rated 4.5 out of 5 of 74 ratings

this course take a long time from me to finished it

But it's a great course

Thank you

Its nerve racking....it keeps one on the toes

I enjoyed the course. It was a challenge for me to have spoken assignments. But I did it. Thank you I learned a lot.

Iam lahcene ifind this courses befor begin it very nice so iwould to focused it withe learning mucht times